Local wall heating effects on aeroacoustic field radiated by an isolated square cylinder in a laminar flow

Abstract

Abstract The aim of this work is to gain an insight on the effect of the wall heating on the aeroacoustic sound radiated by bluff bodies in laminar flows. In particular, the local thermal treatment of the wall boundary was investigated as a possible method for active controlling the emitted noise. This technique was studied performing direct numerical simulations of the aeroacoustic noise produced by an isolated square cylinder operating at a Reynolds and Mach numbers equal to 150 and 0.2, respectively. In the considered case, the Karman vortex street deriving by the flow/cylinder interaction, produces a lift and drag pulsation on the body surface, leading to a dipolar-like noise emission. In this context, different local thermal fluxes were applied to the cylinder wall in order to reduce its aerodynamic forces fluctuation and, consequently, the associated pressure disturbance that produces the radiated sound. The computations are performed using an OpenFOAM solver that adopts an explicit Runge-Kutta scheme for time integration and a second-order, energy conserving scheme for the convective part of the Eulerian flux. Moreover, the spurious numerical waves reflections at the far-field boundary are damped adopting a sponge-layer approach.